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Called back to the Office of Special Investigations for a highly specialized assignment, school guidance counselor Melanie Drake must pose as an escort to infiltrate a dangerous international group of billionaires during a decadent dinner to collect information vital to national security.
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One day, the three friends, a bear, a moose and a beaver, who loved adventure set off to climb a mountain together. But on the way there, they decide to make it more exciting by turning the climb into a race to the top. It's only after being sidelined by a series of mishaps -- a boulder tumbling down the path, the moose hanging off the side of the cliff, the bear hanging off the moose hanging off the side of the cliff -- that the three friends realize...
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Run with the Wolf volume 1
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2023
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English
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Two wolves are better than one, but a pack of wolves beats trouble any day... Ski Lodge owner and gray wolf Kayla Wolff hasn't had the best romantic history, so dating Private Investigator and fellow pack mate Nate Grayson feels like she's hit the jackpot. When she thinks about the way her last relationship ended, Kayla worries that she'll screw up again and lose Nate too. When Nate's latest investigation puts Kayla in the crosshairs, the pack comes...
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Kitty Sugarman is a lot tougher than her name implies. Still, she's content with how her small-town life keeps her removed from all the changes happening in the world-like the Unveiling of the Others. That is, until a near-tragedy strikes and Kitty discovers she has abilities...thanks to a father she never knew was alive. He also happens to be a were-lion and the leader of one of the most powerful prides out west.When Kitty heads to Vegas to find...
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With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk in the Wild Side has found a place in the imaginations of all generations since it first appeared. As Algren admitted, the book "wasn't written until long after it had been walked . . . I found my way to the streets on the other side of the Southern Pacific station, where the big jukes were singing...
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PTP Book Division
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Banff; the Wild Side is a story of the struggle that went into making Banff National Park a famous center of adventure amid towering beauty of one of the special places on earth where people today can come to experience the spirit of the wilderness. Rugged characters-dreamers, builders and adventurers-were drawn by the call of mountains, rivers and forests that those who came earlier respected as gardens of the Creator.
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PTP Book Division
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2021
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Yellowstone; the Wild Side is a story of Yellowstone National Park where a pageantry of rugged characters interacting with each other have created legends repeated around evening campfires through countless years. Some people have hollered with pure joy of beholding such splendid scenery and above all there is the spiritual presence that for each visitor today can emblazon a memory never to be forgotten. Yellowstone history is an incredible mixture...
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PTP Book Division
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2023
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How many times do we visit a place or see a picture and feel we have been there in the past? Jake Sands had such a "been there before" feeling and followed it to a coastal area of Florida where the land is natural as the sea is wild. Here he meets a pageantry of rugged characters and they all fit into a larger story while experiencing life beyond each person's wildest hopes and dreams.
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PTP Book Division
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Killbear Park, the Wild Side is the story of a small area that is part of one of the largest wilderness regions in the world where the land is natural, water is clean and visitors can receive a tonic of rest and healing from the spirit of the wild. From the rugged, rocky shoreline mixed with numerous sand beaches, the views of windswept pines on rocky islands, canoeing and Georgian Bay sunsets, Jake Hayes has time to look at his life, his ever increasing...
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PTP Book Division
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2022
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Smoky Mountains, The Wild Side is a story of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park from the Cherokee to the present where the call of wilderness draws people to a life and spiritual experience never to be forgotten. In 1670 the Iroquois Confederacy was establishing an empire covering the Eastern Woodlands and as part of this fur trade necessitated expansion a force was sent against the Shawnee who had temporarily settled beside the Cherokee in the...
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Berkley Romance
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©2022
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"A zookeeper always on the fringe learns to go after her wildest dreams-including a certain television star-in this charming and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy by Kerry Rea, author of The Wedding Ringer. Lucy Rourke has two great loves in her life: the gorilla troop she cares for as a primatologist and the laundry list of reality TV shows she watches to escape the fact that her actual love life doesn't exist. And like a reality contestant gunning...
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Basic Books
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2018
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English
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Mary Roach meets Bill Bryson in an uproarious tour of the basest instincts and biggest mysteries of the animal world Humans have gone to the Moon and discovered the Higgs boson, but when it comes to understanding animals, we've still got a long way to go. Whether we're seeing a viral video of romping baby pandas or a picture of penguins "holding hands," it's hard for us not to project our own values--innocence, fidelity, temperance, hard work--onto...
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PTP Book Division
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2023
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English
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Beautifully rugged Arizona attracted a wide range of characters including drifters, dreamers, builders, loners, prospectors, and the first to arrive, the Native Americans. Each group was seeking a better life. Clashes of wills became legends such as a shootout at the O. K. Coral and events along the Outlaw Trail. All became part of the tapestry of Arizona where both towering events and small acts of kindness changed lives.
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Harlequin
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2014
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English
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Chicago heiress Sunny Chandler was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Now she's determined to take a walk on the wild side and take the first job she comes across. But "kitchen helper" in a cozy Italian restaurant is a stretch even for cool, elegant Sunny! Nick D'Angelo was practically born with a cooking spoon in his fist. He runs the family restaurant with an iron hand, keeping his meddlesome siblings and matchmaking grandmother in line. The...
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Jason Laureno
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2021
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English
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Forty five years of stumbling, bumbling, and striving to make the American dream a reality. Beginning in the mid-1970s and hitting the brakes days before the 2020 elections, this compelling memoir shows us where we've been and where we might be headed via one man's memories and experiences.While it may read like a novel, every word is true: good, bad, and ugly.Talk is cheap and some actions have expensive consequences. What's worse? Regretting some...
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JMS Books LLC
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2017
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English
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Tall, dark, and dangerous, Reny Stark is from the wrong side of the tracks. A criminal, a thug, and a brawler, he's the best at making bad choices, until one such choice landed him in prison for five years. Now Reny is out and has a great big chip on his shoulder. Having lost everything, he has no future. He's unemployable, and the only place he can afford to live is in a cheap rundown room in the plague pit of New York City called Gangland. At one...